1st Edition
Queering Tourism Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades
By Lynda Johnston
Copyright 2005
158 Pages
2 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
158 Pages
2 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
2 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.
From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyzes the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies – the way they look, what they do, who watches them, and under what regulations – is... Read more
List of Figures. Acknowledgements 1. Proud Beginnings 2. Queer(y)ing Tourism Knowledges 3. Bodies: Camped up Performances 4. Street Scenes: Tourism with(out) Borders 5. Sex in the Suburbs or the CBD? 6. Cities as Sexualised Sites of Queer Consumption 7. Paradoxical Endings
Biography
Lynda Johnston is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social/cultural and feminist geography, critical social theory and tourism.
'Johnston's books is an extremely credible addition to the present gay and lesbian scholarship. It provides an excellent, critical review of politics and performances at gay Pride parades, written with clarity of style'. - Neil Michael Walsh, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
